An­drea Perez-Sobers

Se­nior Re­porter

an­drea.perez-sobers@guardian.co.tt

Ver­li­er Quan-Vie, vice pres­i­dent, com­mer­cial at the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC), for­mal­ly re­signed from the com­pa­ny on Mon­day, Guardian Me­dia has learned.  

Ef­forts to reach Quan-Vie for com­ment were un­suc­cess­ful.  

NGC Chair­man Ger­ald Ramdeen, when con­tact­ed, said he is in­quir­ing in­to the mat­ter and could not say more at this time.

Quan-Vie is the last se­nior lead­er­ship team mem­ber ap­point­ed by for­mer pres­i­dent Mark Lo­quan to step down fol­low­ing a se­ries of de­par­tures af­ter his re­tire­ment in Au­gust 2024.  

She fol­lows Nar­ine­jit Pariag, vice pres­i­dent of fi­nance, tech­nol­o­gy and risk, who left the com­pa­ny in Ju­ly this year. Ac­cord­ing to NGC’s web­site, the on­ly re­main­ing mem­ber of the NGC lead­er­ship team is Ed­mund Sub­ryan, vice pres­i­dent of le­gal and cor­po­rate af­fairs, who now al­so serves as act­ing pres­i­dent and cor­po­rate sec­re­tary.

Oth­er se­nior lead­ers to ex­it NGC since Lo­quan’s re­tire­ment in­clude Kurt Scot­land, se­nior man­ag­er of sup­ply chain man­age­ment; Win­ston Mo­hammed, se­nior man­ag­er of projects; Lisa Bur­kett, se­nior man­ag­er, Cor­po­rate Com­mu­ni­ca­tions; Gillian Chevrotiere, se­nior man­ag­er, peo­ple, lead­er­ship and cul­ture; Hi­malaya Boodoos­ingh, se­nior man­ag­er health, safe­ty, se­cu­ri­ty and en­vi­ron­ment and Ian Wal­cott, vice pres­i­dent of op­er­a­tions.

Ear­li­er this year, Sub­ryan ap­point­ed new mem­bers to the lead­er­ship team, though NGC’s web­site has yet to re­flect these changes. The ap­pointees in­clude Ab­bi­gail Meah-Ali as act­ing vice pres­i­dent, tech­ni­cal ser­vices; Ri­car­do Lewis as act­ing vice pres­i­dent, fi­nance, tech­nol­o­gy and risk; Ren­nie Singh as act­ing vice pres­i­dent, op­er­a­tions; Aisha Ku­ji­fi as man­ag­er, peo­ple, lead­er­ship and cul­ture; David Joseph as se­nior man­ag­er, sup­ply chain man­age­ment; Nico­la Ghouralal as man­ag­er, cor­po­rate com­mu­ni­ca­tions and Adri­an Bar­ran as se­nior man­ag­er, HSE and se­cu­ri­ty. Bar­ran was re­cent­ly ap­point­ed chair­man of the Na­tion­al Main­te­nance Train­ing and Se­cu­ri­ty Com­pa­ny (MTSC), while Meah-Ali now serves as a di­rec­tor on the Board of Lake As­phalt.

Just last week, Na­tion­al En­er­gy Pres­i­dent Ver­non Pal­too in­formed staff that he would pro­ceed on ear­ly re­tire­ment leave ef­fec­tive Sep­tem­ber 29. How­ev­er, sources told the Trinidad Guardian that Pal­too was, in fact, forced in­to pre-re­tire­ment leave.

In an in­ter­nal memo to staff last week, Pal­too said the de­ci­sion fol­lowed “care­ful and de­lib­er­ate re­flec­tion,” de­scrib­ing his years at the or­gan­i­sa­tion as one of the great­est ho­n­ours of his pro­fes­sion­al life.

Na­tion­al En­er­gy is a sub­sidiary of NGC.

In­dus­try sources said dur­ing her time at NGC, Quan-Vie was worked along­side now de­ceased Lo­quan to set­tle pre­vi­ous­ly tur­bu­lent re­la­tion­ships with up­stream and down­stream com­pa­nies, sta­bilise gas sup­ply, re­move bil­lions of dol­lars of claims against the com­pa­ny and in­crease rev­enue from At­lantic LNG. She al­so led com­mer­cial ne­go­ti­a­tions for do­mes­tic and cross-bor­der up­stream gas de­vel­op­ments. 

The NGC web­site high­lights her as a com­mer­cial and busi­ness de­vel­op­ment pro­fes­sion­al with over 30 years’ ex­pe­ri­ence span­ning risk man­age­ment, com­mer­cial, and busi­ness de­vel­op­ment across all as­pects of the en­er­gy val­ue chain, both lo­cal­ly and in­ter­na­tion­al­ly.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal has not been re­spond­ing to calls or What­sApp mes­sages on this de­vel­op­ment.

Mean­while, Per­ma­nent Sec­re­tary Pene­lope Brad­shaw-Niles, Min­istry of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries, has been trans­ferred to the Min­istry of Sports.

Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands that Brad­shaw-Niles is cur­rent­ly on va­ca­tion, and no of­fi­cial rea­son has been giv­en for the change in min­istry.

She has worked with the min­istry for the past 26 years and is a qual­i­fied chem­i­cal en­gi­neer.

Sev­er­al at­tempts to con­tact the En­er­gy Min­is­ter proved fu­tile.